between, Obama's "This kind of thing should be banned!(unless I'm doing it)" on phone and e-mail and internet snooping, assholes like Lindsey Graham playing "If you have nothing to hide, why are you worried?" bullshit games, and just general tired.

Thursday, June 06, 2013

The (National Socialist)Democrats really do like them some history-rewriting, don't they?

"We went to the wrong address, but we BELIEVED we were at the right place, so we're good."Buffalo Police spokesperson Michael DeGeorge says Internal Affairs
has launched an investigation into the case, but that police believe
they had the proper address.

He also says detectives "don't believe the dog was chained or
leashed" when they executed the raid. Adding that if any wrong doing
is found in the investigation that officers will face consequences.
'Consequences'. Such as? Actual punishment? Any more, I doubt it. And don't trust the bastards at all.

The Obama administration’s narrative that the targeting of conservatives by the IRS was the work of “low-level” agents in Cincinnati took another serious blow Thursday when the Wall Street Journal released a new report citing viewed transcripts of interviews with those agents in which they name names of those in Washington who oversaw the action.

Effing Lindsey Graham needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of the Bill of Rights. Preferably one printed on stainless steel. What the hell is wrong with these idiots?

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You
are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven
these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and
prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company
with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will
bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination
of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for
ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi
triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans
great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has
seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage
war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming
superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal
great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free
men of the world are marching together to victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

Did you knowthat previously illegal immigrants who are legalized–like the 11 million immigrants granted Registered Provisional
status by the Schumer-Rubio Gang of 8 bill–not only qualify for the
Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) when they go to work (which seems
reasonable enough to me) but may also get to apply for retroactive credits for previous years in which they were working illegally?

A sheriff's deputy and sheriff who need their ass kicked to another job:The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said.
"He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the
deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I
just wanted to know what happened."No search was performed, and the deputy left Henkelman's home after
the father answered questions in a four-page questionnaire issued by the
Sheriff's Office.
A: "Set foot in my house without a warrant and I'll have you up on charges and sue you."
B: "Questionnaire? Before you'll LEAVE MY HOME? Talk to my lawyer."

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL
unit that carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the unit’s
ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by “Zero Dark Thirty”
filmmaker Mark Boal, according to a draft Pentagon inspector general’s
report obtained by a watchdog group.

Panetta also disclosed
classified information designated as “top secret” and “secret” during
his presentation at the CIA awards ceremony, says the draft IG report
published Wednesday by the Project on Government Oversight.

"I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy."
Further, Gerritson also dropped a bombshell on the committee: Her group received
an inquiry letter bearing Lois Lerner’s signature. Lerner has claimed
that the IRS abuse of groups like Gerritson’s was the work of a couple
of “rogue employees.” Lerner has since plead the Fifth Amendment in her
refusal to testify on the abuse, and has been placed on administrative
leave.

The massive tornado contained several powerful "subvortices," areas of
extremely rapid rotation that swirled within the larger tornadic
circulation. These subvortices contained the strongest wind speeds
measured within the tornado, greater than 295 miles per hour in several
different instances -- well above the 201-mph minimum requirement for a
EF5 designation.
And size:In addition, the width of the tornado has been given a "conservative" estimate of 2.6 miles. This is a new record for the widest tornado in history, beating the previous record of 2.5 miles near Hallam, Neb. on May 22, 2004.

For those of you in metric lands, that's 'greater than 475 kilometers per hour' and 'estimate of 4.2 kilometers wide'.

My house is about 2.5 miles north of I40, daughter's slightly less than a mile. So when a airborne vacuum this size was reported traveling right along I40, you'll understand it was worrying.

I think there is a bigger story here that will in time come out. The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is what was the president doing in those eight hours.
He had a routine meeting at five o’clock. He never after during the
eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called
the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director, Who does he call? But
five hours in he calls the Secretary of State. And after the phone call
she releases a statement essentially about the video and how we denounce
any intolerance.It looks as if the only phone call is
to construct a cover story at a time when the last two Americans who
died were still alive and fighting for their lives. There’s the scandal and that has to be uncovered.

Due to circumstances, I saw parts of two Made For SYFY Movies!! (Mega-Something vs. -oid I think)the other night.

‘Parts’ because I was unable to watch the whole. I do mean unable; I like good monster movies, but these didn't qualify, and I think I’d have had a stroke if I’d tried to force myself to watch the whole of either.

Bad? BAD was not even on the rating curve. ‘Execrable’ would be a level of excellence to which these movies would aspire. And fail. I would like to try to describe the parts I saw just for illustration, but I think I can hear brain cells crying for mercy just because I thought about doing so.

Joe Huffman once asked if there’s a rule that these things HAVE to be bad; if there’s not a rule, then some sadist really likes to inflict torment upon those fool enough to turn on the channel, and someone gave him free rein at the SYFY network.

Sunday, June 02, 2013

Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas H. Shulman, a
frequent White House guest during the period when the IRS was targeting
conservative nonprofits, is married to the senior program advisor for Public Campaign, an “organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform
that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money
in American politics.”
Just coincidence, right? So's this:Public Campaign’s ninth-floor 1133 19th Street NW office in Washington, D.C. is located on the same floor as the liberal groups Common Cause and Center for Progressive Leadership.

Also,The Internal Revenue Service has told House GOP investigators they have
identified 88 IRS employees who may have documents relevant to the
congressional investigation into targeting of conservative groups,
according to a congressional source familiar with the investigation.
'A few', right. And the clowns running the IRS really don't want to answer questions; kind of like they think they're immune or something:The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) declined Friday afternoon to meet a
Senate Finance Committee deadline for answering detailed questions
about the origins of the IRS scandal. The questions had been submitted
jointly nearlytwo weeks ago by Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT).In a joint statement to Breitbart News, Baucus and Hatch said:“It’s disappointing that the IRS failed to produce any of the documents requested by the Committee.
Well, try expressing that disappointment with subpoenas. And charges.

Something on this from Mark Steyn:Although acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for the “horrible
customer service” conservative taxpayers had gotten, a gentleman by the
name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took
the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya,
Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as
Phoenix and Dallas. Malik, the brother of President Obama, runs the
Barack H. Obama Foundation, named for the president’s father. On May 30,
2011, they applied for tax-exempt status, and had their approval signed
less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently
backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising
Malik had already been raking in “tax-deductible” donations from
Americans. The Washington address of the Barack H. Obama Foundation
appears to be bogus, and it’s not clear whether the funds are being used
back in Kenya for anything other than supporting the famously lavish
lifestyle of Malik and his twelve wives. Given that the IRS is not shy
about asking American conservatives for Facebook posts and lists of who
attends their meetings, Ms. Lerner surely would have been within her
rights to ask Malik Obama about the “exclusive” photographs currently
displayed on the Barack H. Obama Foundation website of a recent meeting
in Sudan, one of only four countries the U.S. government designates as a
“terrorist state,” and the Foundation’s apparently extensive
association with the Sudanese president and blood-soaked genocidal war
criminal Omar al-Bashir.

Under the heading that "There's really no vote fraud going on, not enough of it to worry about!",The chief of staff to freshman Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) resigned on
Friday after he was implicated in a plot to submit hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots during the congressman’s primary election
last year....Jeffrey Garcia declined to comment to the paper, which reported that he
also worked for the campaign of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), who
defeated Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in 2012.
Rep. Garcia said he was likely to put his communications director,
Giancarlo Sopo, on administrative leave after Sopo was served with a
search warrant Friday.
If these bastards aren't at least charged, then there needs to be some kind of civil action taken; this garbage has to be stopped, and people going to jail and being fined is probably the only thing that'll do it.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis

Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. - Capt. Mal

A Rifleman’s Prayer:Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses. Geek with a .45

"He's Black Council,", I said.

"Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered.

I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier."

Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." Ebenezar McCoy

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself." Dr. M.L. King Jr.